Attachment for running boards of automobiles



G. S. BOWES.

ATTACHMENT FOR RUNNING BOARDS OF AU'TOMOBiLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.29,1920.

1,407,514, Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

GEORGE SIDNEY BOWES, OF NEWCOMERSTOWN, OHIO.

ATTACHMENT FOR RUNNING BOARDS OF AUTOMOBILES.

Application filed September 29 1920.

- 1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I. Gnouen S. Bowns, a citizen of the United States, of Newcomerstown, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Running Boards of Automobiles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in attachments for running-boards of automobiles,t-he object of the invention being to provide a tread-plate having a roughened upper face, which may be readily mounted upon the running-board of any automobile, and to provide, as a fixed partof said plate, a scraper which shall be so located with respect to the edge of the plate and the edge of the running-board that the scrapings from the shoe of the user will fall upon the ground.

A further object is to so construct a combined tread-plate and scraper for the running-board of an automobile that the scraper shall have such form as to avoid injury to ladies wearing apparel and also to avoid liability of injurious conflict with the heels of shoes.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view showing the application of my improvement to the running-board of an automobile, and Figure 2 is a view in section of the device.

1 represents the running-board of an automobile on which my improved tread-plate 2 is mounted and secured in any desired manner. The plate 2 is preferably made of metal but might be made of hard rubber or other composition and is provided with a roughened upper face 3 to prevent slipping. The tread-plate 2 is so located on the running-board that one of its edges will be approximately coincident with the free edge of the running-board and is provided with a scraper 4 which projects beyond its edge and also beyond the free edge of the run ningboard. The scraper 4: is made as a permanent and fixed part of the tread-plate and may be integral therewith, but projects Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Serial No. 413,532.

outwardly from the edge of the tread-plate so that scrapings from foot-wear will drop through the space between the body of said scraper and the edge of the plate. The scraper 4t comprises a body portion 5, the outer face of which will preferably be somewhat curved; end members 6 integral with and at right angles to the body portion 5, and lugs 7 projecting from said end members and disposed over the edge portion of the tread-plate near one end of the latter, said end members being adapted to engage the free edge of the running board and thus insure the proper positioning of the device on the running board. The lugs 7 are made rigid with the tread-plate (preferably integral therewith) and their upper edges and the upper ends of the end members 6 are rounded to prevent possibility of conflict with the apparel of passengers entering or leaving the automobile.

My improvements are applicable to the running-board of any automobile now in use without necessity of recessing or otherwise altering the running-boards for the reception of the same.

Slight changes might be made in the form of the device and the material employed, without departing from the spirit of my invention or limiting its scope and hence I do not wish to restrict myself to the precise details herein set forth.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is,

1. An attachment for the running board of a vehicle, comprising a metallic tread plate and a scraper near one end of said plate and spaced from the free edge thereof, said scraper having end members disposed at right angles to the body of the scraper and adapted to abut against the front edge of the runnin board, and lugs connecting said end mem ers of the scraper with the running board.

2. An attachment for the running board of a vehicle, comprising a metallic tread plate, and a scraper near one end thereof and spaced from the free edge of said plate, said scraper having end members disposed at right angles to the body of the scraper and integral therewith, and rounded lugs integral with and projecting from the upper portions of the end members of the scraper and made rigid with the tread plate.

3. A device of the character described,

comprising a tread-plate, and a scraper, said scraper comprising. a body. portion SPLCG-Ci from an edge of said plate, end members disposed at right, anglest-o said body memher and lugs overlying the tread-plate and rigidthere'\vit11, the upper portions of said end'm'embers and lugs of the scraper being rounded.

Vitnesses L. H. WILSON, SAMUEL ROBINSON. 

